US4394531A - Transmission line assembly including means for reducing vibrations and method of making same - Google Patents

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US4394531A
US4394531A US06/212,127 US21212780A US4394531A US 4394531 A US4394531 A US 4394531A US 21212780 A US21212780 A US 21212780A US 4394531 A US4394531 A US 4394531A
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Jacques J. A. Delabie
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16L—PIPES; JOINTS OR FITTINGS FOR PIPES; SUPPORTS FOR PIPES, CABLES OR PROTECTIVE TUBING; MEANS FOR THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16L57/00—Protection of pipes or objects of similar shape against external or internal damage or wear
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16L—PIPES; JOINTS OR FITTINGS FOR PIPES; SUPPORTS FOR PIPES, CABLES OR PROTECTIVE TUBING; MEANS FOR THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16L7/00—Supporting of pipes or cables inside other pipes or sleeves, e.g. for enabling pipes or cables to be inserted or withdrawn from under roads or railways without interruption of traffic
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01B—CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; SELECTION OF MATERIALS FOR THEIR CONDUCTIVE, INSULATING OR DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES
    • H01B13/00—Apparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing conductors or cables
    • H01B13/06—Insulating conductors or cables
    • H01B13/18—Applying discontinuous insulation, e.g. discs, beads
    • H01B13/185—Applying discontinuous insulation, e.g. discs, beads by periodically constricting an insulating sleeve
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10S174/00—Electricity: conductors and insulators
    • Y10S174/08—Shrinkable tubes

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  • This invention concerns a protective device for a line such as an electrical transmission line, a manufacturing process for same, and a transmission line provided with such a device.
  • the principal object of the invention is to provide a transmission line with a device which provides effective protection against vibration, wear from abrasion, piezo-electrical phenomena or mechanical shocks.
  • the line protection device includes an outside sheath which is tubular in shape and surrounds the line, this sheath being kept separate from the line by an interior tubular wall member which features, at regular intervals, contracted sections which contiguously surround the line and longer sections which are mounted so as to rub against the sheath.
  • the sheath and/or the interior wall member are made of a plastic material
  • the interior wall member is made of a thermo-retractable plastic material
  • the interior wall member delimits, with the outside sheath, an annular gas-filled sealed chamber at the level of each contracted section.
  • the interior wall member delimits, with the line, an annular gas-filled sealed chamber at the level of each longer section, the line is flexible or semiflexible, and the line is an electrical wire or a bundle of electrical wires.
  • the protective device which is simple in design and can be manufactured inexpensively, is thus capable of dampening violent shocks and vibrations which threaten to cause a break in the line.
  • This protective device is manufactured to best advantage by means of a procedure according to which the line is inserted into a tube of thermoretractable plastic material, whose inside diameter is greater than the outside diameter of the line, whereafter the tube is heated at regular intervals to produce contracted sections which contiguously surround the line, and the line thus fitted with the shaped tubular wall member is inserted into a tubular sheath whose inside diameter may be very slightly greater than, or very slightly smaller than, the outside diameter of the uncontracted sections of the tubular wall member.
  • the sole FIGURE is a lengthwise view in axial cross-section of an electrical cable according to one mode of manufacture of the invention.
  • the cable represented consists of an electrical wire 1 protected and electrically insulated along its entire length by a device surrounding the wire 1 and including an external flexible or semiflexible sheath 2 which is tubular in shape, and an inside flexible or semiflexible wall member 3, also tubular but featuring, at regular intervals, contracted tubular sections 3a which contiguously surround the wire 1. Between the contracted sections 3a are larger-diameter tubular sections 3b, whose outside diameters are, before the wall member 3 is mounted inside the sheath 2, very slightly greater than the inside diameter of said sheath 2.
  • the interior wall member 3, with the wire 1 and the sheath 2 delimits a series of annular gas-filled chambers 4 (filled with air, for example), which constitute one of the shock absorbing or vibration absorbing elements with respect to the sheath 2.
  • the chambers 4 are most advantageously sealed to prevent passage of the gas they contain.
  • the wall member 3 is preferably made of a thermoretractable thermoplastic such as polyethylene, polytetrafluoroethylene (marketed under the name “Teflon”), fluoropropylene fluoride of vinylidene (marketed under the name “Viton”), polychloroprene (marketed under the name of neoprene), polyfluoride of vinylidene (marketed under the name “Kynar”), the polyolefines, etc.
  • the sheath 2 is made of an electrically insulating or noninsulating material which has good resistance to corrosion, such as plastic sheaths or tubes or stainless steel sheaths or tubes.
  • the cable just described may be manufactured in the following manner. First, the wire 1 is inserted into a tube 3 of the thermoretractable plastic. The tube 3 is then heated where it is intended to form the contracted sections 3a. The wire 1 with the wall member 3 thus shaped is then inserted into a sheath 2, the inside diameter of which is very slightly less than the outside diameter of the noncontracted sections 3b of the tube 3 for frictional engagement of sheath 2 and wall member 3 and such that tubular contracted sections 3a support said wire 1 so as to have a longitudinal axial orientation parallel to that of sheath 2 as clearly shown in the sole FIGURE.
  • the cable as just described is most advantageously used in applications which require an environment which is severe in terms of vibration and mechanical constraints, but nevertheless require high reliability. Such is the case of aeronautical equipment and principally of turbojet accessories.
  • the wire 1, which may be flexible or semiflexible, may be replaced by another type of line, for example a flexible or semiflexible fluid conduit.

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FR7929922A FR2470915A1 (fr) 1979-12-03 1979-12-03 Dispositif de protection de canalisation tel que conducteur electrique, son procede de fabrication et canalisation munie de ce dispositif
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US4765944A (en) * 1986-02-03 1988-08-23 Framatome Device for the transverse retention of a movable tubular conduit in a pressurized water nuclear reactor
US5669749A (en) * 1994-11-14 1997-09-23 International Business Machines Corporation Movable flexible ribbon cable and support band assembly
US5911248A (en) * 1997-08-11 1999-06-15 Dresser Industries, Inc. Gasoline dispenser and cable assembly for preventing vapor flow
US6038862A (en) * 1997-12-23 2000-03-21 United Technologies Corporation Vibration damper for a fuel nozzle of a gas turbine engine
US6062265A (en) * 1997-10-30 2000-05-16 Head; Philip Conduit and continuous coiled tubing system and method of assembly thereof
EP1594205A1 (fr) * 2004-05-04 2005-11-09 Siemens Aktiengesellschaft Dispositif à encapsulation tubulaire pour un appareil de transport d'énergie
ES2370573A1 (es) * 2009-06-19 2011-12-20 Future Fibres Rigging Systems, S.L.U. Dispositivo antivibratorio para cables.
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GB705614A (en) * 1951-09-13 1954-03-17 Victor Planer Improvements in or relating to insulated electric cables
US2760228A (en) * 1952-02-19 1956-08-28 Telecommunications Sa Manufacture of tubular insulators for electric conductors
JPS5254454A (en) * 1975-10-29 1977-05-02 Sumitomo Electric Ind Ltd Light-transmitting cable
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FR761000A (fr) * 1932-09-24 1934-03-07 Deutsche Telephonwerk Kabel Procédé de fabrication d'un conducteur à faible capacité
CH165676A (fr) * 1933-02-17 1933-11-30 Loeb Jacques Câble blindé à faible capacité et faibles pertes pour haute fréquence.
GB705614A (en) * 1951-09-13 1954-03-17 Victor Planer Improvements in or relating to insulated electric cables
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JPS5254454A (en) * 1975-10-29 1977-05-02 Sumitomo Electric Ind Ltd Light-transmitting cable
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US4765944A (en) * 1986-02-03 1988-08-23 Framatome Device for the transverse retention of a movable tubular conduit in a pressurized water nuclear reactor
US5669749A (en) * 1994-11-14 1997-09-23 International Business Machines Corporation Movable flexible ribbon cable and support band assembly
US5791853A (en) * 1994-11-14 1998-08-11 International Business Machines Corporation Support band for movable flexible cable assembly
US5911248A (en) * 1997-08-11 1999-06-15 Dresser Industries, Inc. Gasoline dispenser and cable assembly for preventing vapor flow
US6062265A (en) * 1997-10-30 2000-05-16 Head; Philip Conduit and continuous coiled tubing system and method of assembly thereof
US6038862A (en) * 1997-12-23 2000-03-21 United Technologies Corporation Vibration damper for a fuel nozzle of a gas turbine engine
EP1594205A1 (fr) * 2004-05-04 2005-11-09 Siemens Aktiengesellschaft Dispositif à encapsulation tubulaire pour un appareil de transport d'énergie
ES2370573A1 (es) * 2009-06-19 2011-12-20 Future Fibres Rigging Systems, S.L.U. Dispositivo antivibratorio para cables.
TWI511398B (zh) * 2013-05-30 2015-12-01 Ks Terminals Inc Cable locating elements and charging guns using this cable locating element
US9257857B2 (en) 2013-05-30 2016-02-09 K. S. Terminals Inc. Cable positioning device and charger using same

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